WEINSHEIMER, Joel, Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory

Philosophical Hermeneutics Hermeneutic Bioethics

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...

Literary Genre and Hermeneutics of the Apocalypse

A relatively new field of specialized NT study is a careful examination of the literary genre or style of different books. Revelation has often been classified as a kind of literature called "apocalyptic," but the category of "prophetic" is probably a better classification for the book. The book calls itself a prophecy. If the genre were primarily apocalyptic, this might constitute a basis for ...

Re-reading the Narrative in Ibrahim Sultan’s Shahnama Based on Paul Ricoeur`s Philosophical Hermeneutics Theory

A manuscript of Ibrahim Sultan`s Shahna­ma available at the Bodleian Library of Oxford, representing the full range of vi­sual features of the Shiraz School at the age of Ibrahim Sultan Timuri (817-838 AH) which has the symbolic aspects and semantic trends of painting and the po­tentiality to be interpreted based on phil­osophical hermeneutics. It seems that an­alyzing the visual element and re...

Literary Philosophy: The Anatomy of Philosophical Style

Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies

In his article "Literary Studies from Hermeneutics to Media Culture Studies" Siegfried J. Schmidt discusses aspects of hermeneutics, the systemic and empirical (contextual) approach to literature and culture, radical constructivism, and his postulates for the field of media culture studies. Schmidt describes his understanding of the transformation of literary studies towards media culture studi...